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calf's-foot, calves-foot
Also 5 calvysfote, 6 calfes foote.
1. lit. The foot of a calf; hence, calves-foot jelly.
1620Venner Via Recta iii. 70 The vse of them (especially of Calues feete) is very profitable in consumptions. 1775Nourse in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 438, I now allowed him chicken broth..calves-feet jelly. 1785W. Scott in Med. Commun. II. 85, I procured some calf's foot jelly. 1879Sala in Daily Tel. 28 June, What purported to be mock-turtle soup..with pieces of calves-foot or cow-heel in it.
2. Herb. The Cuckoo-pint or Wake-robin (Arum maculatum): see arum. [So Fr. pied-de-veau.]
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 588 Jarus, Cokkupyntel et Calvysfote. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. vii. 322 Calfes foote or Cockowpynt. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 30 The hearb Arum, called in English Wake-Robbin or Calves-foot. |